"Linguistic Patterns in the Poems of Lakshmi Kannan" - A Stylistic Approach

R. D. Janardhan

Abstract: Indian English Poetry after independence demanded a new use of language and called for the use of everyday speech. Hence there is a demand, as it were, for the creation of an Indian English idiom, to give an identity to Indian English Poetry independent of a different from the world literatures written in English including British and American Literatures. The modern Indian English poets realize a need to acclimatize English language to an indigenous tradition. They have attempted and succeeded to an extent in evolving and remoulding English to the native needs of expression termed as 'Indianization'. Lakshmi Kannan who joins the movement creates a different music to give poetry a greater informality, to bring it closer to the spoken language. She handles the language with utmost care and competence by giving importance to the contemporary idiom

Keywords: acclimatization, topicalization, hypersemantics, thematization, foregrounding, schematic figures, semantic absurdity, collocational clash, miniaturization, transfusion